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Watch 1,150 movies free online. Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films, created by some of our greatest actors, actresses and directors. The collection is divided into the following categories: Comedy & Drama; Film Noir, Horror & Hitchcock; Westerns (many with John Wayne); Martial Arts Movies; Silent Films; Documentaries, and Animation. We also have special collections of Oscar Winning Movies and Films by Andrei Tarkovsky and Charlie Chaplin.

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• 125 Korean Feature Films – Free – The Korean Film Archive has put on YouTube over 100 Korean feature films, including Im Kwon-taek’s Sopyonje and Hong Sangsoo’s The Day the Pig Fell Into a Well. A bonanza for fans of Korean film.
• 70 Movies in HD from Famed Russian Studio Mosfilm – Free – Includes films by Tarkovsky, Eisenstein and Kurosawa. These all appear on Mosfilm’s official YouTube channel.
• A Farewell to Arms – Free – Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes star in a film based on famous novel by Ernest Hemingway. (1932)
• A Hunting Accident – Free – Soviet romantic drama directed by Emil Loteanu, adapted from Anton Chekhov’s “The Shooting Party.” It was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Click “CC” for titles. (1978)
• A Matter of Life and Death  – Free – Romantic fantasy film created by the British writing-directing-producing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and set in England during the Second World War. It stars David Niven, Roger Livesey, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring and Raymond Massey. (1946)
• A Song of Love – Free – The only film by playwright Jean Genet. The erotic film was censored. (1950)
• A Star is Born – Free – Janet Gaynor portrays Esther Blodgett, a starry-eyed small town girl with a dream of making it big in Hollywood. (1937)
• Adventures of Robinson Crusoe – Free – The classic novel by Daniel Defoe gets adapted by the great Luis Buñuel. (1954)
• Afonya – Free – Directed by Georgi Daneliya, this Soviet comedy film became an unexpected blockbuster. It’s made available by the Russian film studio Mosfilm. Click “cc” to get subtitles. (1975)
• Alexander Nevsky – Free – A historical drama film directed by the great Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein. (1938)
• Angel on My Shoulder – Free – A gangster comedy starring Claude Rains and Paul Muni. (1946)
• As You Like It – Free – It’s Laurence Olivier’s earliest Shakespeare performance on film. It’s also the first feature-length British sound Shakespeare film. (1936)
• Becky Sharp – Free – The first feature film to use three-strip Technicolor film, or, put differently, the first real color film. (1935).
• Blade Runner 2049 Prequels – Free – Three short official prequels for Blade Runner 2049 have been released, advancing the Blade Runner story. One is shot by respected Japanese animator Shinichiro Watanabe. (2017)
• Cannibal! The Musical – Free – Black comedy by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the makers of South Park. Their very first feature film. (1993)
• Captain Kidd – Free – Charles Laughton and John Carradine star in film with drama on the high seas. (1945)
• Castello Cavalcanti – Free – Wes Anderson’s short film takes place in a hamlet tucked away somewhere in Italy. Features Jason Schwartzman, star of Anderson’s 1998 breakout Rushmore. (2013)
• Charade – Free – Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn star in the best Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never made. (1963)
• Charade – Free – The film consists of three short stories starring James Mason and his wife Pamela Mason. (1953)

• collective:unconscious – Free – Five indie filmmakers adapt each other’s dreams for the screen. The New Yorker’s Richard Brody called it one of his favorite films at the 2016 SXSW film festival. (2016)
• Cold Sweat – Free – Charles Bronson, Liv Ullman, James Mason, and Jill Ireland star in this action packed movie about a ruthless drug runner who holds a man’s family hostage. (1970)
• Crash: The Short Film – Free – Otherwise known as The Atrocity Exhibition, this pre-Cronenberg short film was directed by Harley Cokeliss and stars J.G. Ballard himself. (1971)
• Cyrano De Bergerac – Free – Michael Gordon’s tale based on the classic French tale. (1950)
• Darwin – Free – 53-minute exploration of the life and work of Charles Darwin by Peter Greenaway. (1993)
• Détour – Free – A short charming film shot by Michel Gondry purely on his iPhone. (2017)
• Diary – Free – Short film by Tim Hetherington (director of Restrepo) that reflects on his ten years of war reporting. (2010)
• Dinner for One – Free – A short comedy film that has become part of a New Year’s Eve tradition in Germany and many other European countries. Once held the Guinness World Record for Most Frequently Repeated TV Program. (1963)
• Doodlebug – Free – One of Christopher Nolan’s early short films. Made in 1997, released in 2003.
• Dreams That Money Can Buy – Free – A surrealist film by Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger & Hans Richter. (1947)
• Duet for Cannibals – Free – A tale of emotional cannibalism by Susan Sontag. A pair of psychological & sexual cannibals come close to devouring a younger couple. (1969)
• Eat, Sleep & Kiss – Free – Three silent anti-films by Andy Warhol. (1963-1964)
• Edgar Allan Poe’s the Raven – Free – Winner of the Best Short at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, this film modernizes Poe’s story, situating it in Hollywood 1959. (2011)
• End of the World – Free – After witnessing a man’s death in a bizarre accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, where he encounters his alien double bent on world conquest. Sci-fi film stars Christopher Lee. (1977)
• Enthusiasm – Free – Dziga Vertov’s masterpiece of early sound film, Enthusiasm deals with the Five Year Plan of the late 1920s. His goal was “to grasp the feverish reality of life in the Don Basin, to convey as true to life as possible its atmosphere of the clash of hammers, of train whistles, of the songs of workers at rest.” In Russian. (1931)
• Erotikon – Free – Directed by Czech filmmaker Gustav Machatý and starring Hedy Lamarr, the film was controversial in its time because it had nude scenes. It was the first non-pornographic movie to portray sexual intercourse and the female orgasm. (1929)
• Evidence – Free – From the maker of Koyaanisqatsi, a short film about kids watching cartoons (1995).
• Fear and Desire – Free – An uncut print of Stanley Kubrick’s “lost” early film. Kubrick didn’t like how his first film came out, so removed it from circulation. (1953)

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